Using the pubgrub crate

The PubGrub algorithm works for any package type implementing Clone + Eq + Hash + Debug + Display, and any version type implementing our Version trait, defined as follows.


#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
pub trait Version: Clone + Ord + Debug + Display {
    fn lowest() -> Self;
    fn bump(&self) -> Self;
}
}

The lowest() trait method should return the lowest version existing, and bump(&self) should return the smallest version stricly higher than the current one.

For convenience, we already provide the SemanticVersion type, which implements Version for versions expressed as Major.Minor.Patch. We also provide the NumberVersion implementation of Version, which is basically just a newtype for non-negative integers, 0, 1, 2, etc.

Note that the complete semver specification also involves pre-release and metadata tags, not handled in our SemanticVersion simple type.

Now that we know the Package and Version trait requirements, let's explain how to actually use pubgrub with a simple example.